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Paul Walter Hauser Joins Zach Cregger’s ‘Resident Evil’ Movie
Actor Paul Walter Hauser (The Naked Gun, Cruella) is set to join Weapons director Zach Cregger’s upcoming Resident Evil movie, Deadline reports today.
Hauser joins previously announced lead Austin Abrams (Wolfs, the upcoming Whalefall), who reteams with his Weapons director.
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil hits theaters September 18, 2026.
Plot details are under wraps, but Constantin Film and PlayStation Productions are bringing Resident Evil back to the big screen after seven live-action movies and a short-lived Netflix television series, with Cregger directing from a script co-written with Shay Hatten (Army of the Dead, Day Shift).
Cregger’s Resident Evil is said to “take the title back to its horror roots and be more faithful to the initial games,” but the filmmaker doesn’t intend on being a slave to the franchise’s lore.
“I am a gigantic Resident Evil game fan. I’ve played them all. I don’t know how many times I’ve just looped [RE4] again and again. I just love it. I’m definitely not trying to be completely obedient to the lore of the games,” Cregger recently said. “I’m trying to tell a story that just feels authentic to the experience you get when you play the games.”
The filmmaker also warned to expect a very different type of movie from Barbarian and Weapons. “This movie follows a person from point A to point B. It’s like a real-time journey, where you just go deeper and deeper into the depths of Hell,” Cregger continues. “And it’s really a love letter to the games. Because I love those games. This is a story that I would’ve wanted to write whether I got the IP or not. I just happen to be able to have these Resident Evil people be down. So I get to play in that sandbox. I’m doing it because I think this movie is going to be fucking awesome.”
Constantin Film is producing and co-financing the pic. Constantin’s Robert Kulzer will produce alongside Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee and Miri Yoon and PlayStation Productions’ Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan. Constantin and Davis Films’ Victor Hadida are executive producing.
Found footage franchise The Blair Witch Project is coming back to life with a new movie, but when we can expect it? In a chat with Indiewire this week, producer Jason Blum teases that the new Paranormal Activity and Blair Witch Project movies are both planning 2027 releases.
Blum notes, “They’re both coming out next year. Blair Witch and Paranormal.”
As we’ve already reported, the new Paranormal Activity movie already has a date. From director Ian Tuason (Undertone), the new installment will release in theaters May 21, 2027.
This is the first we’re hearing about Blair Witch‘s 2027 plans. Stay tune for more.
Dylan Clark (Portrait of God) is set to direct the new take on the seminal found footage horror movie, with the original movie’s filmmakers and cast on board to produce the project.
Original Blair Witch Project filmmakers Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick, producer Gregg Hale, and stars Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams will executive produce.
Producer James Wan tells Indiewire this week, “Getting all the original people that were involved in the original Blair Witch, getting their blessing and getting them involved. That was very important for all of us. We wanted to pay respect to the legacy of it all.”
Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Atomic Monster‘s James Wan are producing the new Blair Witch Project with Roy Lee and Divide/Conquer’s Adam Hendricks & Greg Gilreath.
According to Deadline, Blair Witch‘s return “will deal with a family that goes on a camping trip but goes missing one by one after they hear strange noises in the forest.”
Much like David F. Sandberg, Curry Barker, and Kane Parsons before him, Dylan Clark was discovered on YouTube after going viral with his horror short Portrait of God. That short is already being expanded into a feature, with Jordan Peele and Sam Raimi producing.
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